 Dear students, I welcome you in the course of leadership, Emotional Intelligence and the CN making. This is module number 245 and the topic of discussion is the functions of leadership. Remember one thing that leadership is a tough challenge and being a leader, you have to be very careful that the situation, followers, your own requirements are there. For this purpose, when we talk about the situation and when we talk about the followers and the challenges, there are certain functions which you have to perform as being a leader and those functions are discussed as in displayed in the diagram. First of all, there are different types of roles which you have to think about. For example, you have to achieve the task, you have to build and maintain the team and you obviously have to develop the individuals. Now in roles to perform, there are different functions which require your utmost attention. For example, you have to appropriately elaborate your task, what is the requirement of that task, what activities are included in that task, what are the priorities related to that task, so you have to discuss and define the task in a rightful fashion. And the more quantitatively you can define your task, the better we can achieve our targets. So that means that the task should always be defined in a smart fashion. And by the word smart, we mean to say that we have to be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-framed. So, we have to operate in a smart fashion. Similarly, what are your planning requirements? How do you brief all your aspects? Do you have controlling parameters for checks and balances? How will you evaluate things? How did your performance in terms of productivity, profitability and satisfaction appropriately achieved? How will you motivate people? How will you organize your situation? Particularly when we talk about organizing, it might be concerned with the 5w's. That what went, where, why, how and who, when, when and how, how and how, what you're performing? So all of these components, delegation and authority, role associations… all of it that we have to develop. And through these you have to provide an example. You have to demonstrate yourself as a role model in front of people. Similarly, if we develop a planning continuum related to the leadership perspective, then we can associate our leadership concern with the freedom of the team members. If we look at its lowest level, which is level one, then here the leader makes a plan and announces it. Here all the responsibility is of the leader. If we move in this continuum and start giving free will to the people, in this case, they are also ready and they are also able to perform the phenomena, in that case, the next step would be that the leader sells his own plan. The next step would be the leader presents ideas and invites questions. After this, the leader presents tentative plan subject to change. After this, we can talk about the leader presents problems, gets suggestions and makes plans. What is happening here is that slowly we are giving delegation of authority and empowerment. We are using their will to achieve their goal. And the role of the leader's particular authority is getting diluted. Similarly, on the next level, the leader defines the limits, asks the team to make a plan. Here, all the plans that are presented and driven by the team orientation. We are also seeing this in this diagrammatic format that with the passage of time, the use of authority by the leader is getting less and the freedom for the team member is getting more. So, that is very important phenomena which we have to think about. In this planning continuum, we have seen how with time, the authority and the power of the leader is getting on the lower side and the participation of the followers is increasing. It is important to think about the readiness, ableness and willingness of the followers. If they are able and willing, they can contribute better. Otherwise, you may have to use the telling and selling style. Dear students, remember that leadership is a continuous process. In that continuous process, you have to see what are the needs and capabilities of your followers. They have cutting edge expertise. How can you use those expertise in a unique way so that the results of the organization can be achieved better? Thank you.